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Drool, Britannia? Is the UK Failing the Cloud?
By Roger Strukhoff
Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
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Cloud Computing: Chinese Company Wants China’s iPad Exports Halted
By Maureen O'Gara
The Chinese company that claims it owns the iPad trademark says it plans to seek a ban on iPad exports out of China, threatening global supplies. According to what a lawyer for Proview Technology (Shenzhen) Co Ltd told Reuters, the firm is petitioning Chinese customs to stop shipment...
Feb. 15, 2012 08:50 AM EST  Reads: 253
Apple Testing Smaller iPad: WSJ
By Maureen O'Gara
Contrary to Steve Jobs’ dictum that the 9.7-inch iPad is as small as a tablet can get, Apple is testing a widget that’s around eight inches and has gotten as far as qualifying suppliers for it, according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s supposed to be working with screen makers AU Opt...
Feb. 15, 2012 07:45 AM EST  Reads: 435
More Mobile Devices than People Soon: Cisco
By Maureen O'Gara
The Internet highway may start looking like a proverbial New York traffic jam at rush hour soon. Feel free to substitute any town you like because Cisco says there’s going to be a faster-than-expected 18x surge in worldwide mobile data traffic between 2011 and 2016. That’s when mob...
Feb. 15, 2012 07:45 AM EST  Reads: 533
EC Clears Googlorola Merger But Antitrust Probe Could Follow
By Maureen O'Gara
The European Commission late Monday cleared Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility but it also issued a simultaneous warning that the companies could be charged with antitrust violations for abusing the fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms of ...
Feb. 14, 2012 08:30 AM EST  Reads: 512
Apple Wants Samsung Galaxy Nexus Banned in America
By Maureen O'Gara
Apple wants the Ice Cream-bearing Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone that Samsung worked on with Google banned from the United States because it allegedly infringes four strong Apple technical patents – none of this squishy design stuff like before. Apple quietly asked a district court in Ca...
Feb. 14, 2012 08:15 AM EST  Reads: 714
Google Cultivates a Rep as Patent Gouger
By Maureen O'Gara
Apple quietly wrote a letter to ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, in November asking it to set basic rules for the licensing of standards-essential patents and to make its patent-wielding members commit to the principles. Apple clearly had Google and its Andro...
Feb. 13, 2012 07:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,165
iPad 3 Next Month: AllThingsDigital
By Maureen O'Gara
Apple is going to launch the iPad 3, or whatever they call it, the first week of March at a special event in San Francisco according to AllThingsD, a prophecy the punters regarded as being as good as a statement from the company. As a result Apple Thursday hit an all-time high, teasi...
Feb. 13, 2012 07:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,271
MMI Said to Want 2.25% of Apple Sales for Patents
By Maureen O'Gara
Mobile phone inventor and proposed Google acquisition Motorola Mobility apparently wants Apple to pay a royalty of 2.25% of sales to cover a FRAND license to its fundamental standards-essential patents according to an October 17 letter between the companies’ outside German lawyers unea...
Feb. 9, 2012 07:30 AM EST  Reads: 727
Google Loses Appeal to Suppress Evidence in Java Suit
By Maureen O'Gara
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington Monday punctured Google’s hopes of hiding the telltale Lindholm e-mail from the jury when Oracle finally drags Google and Android before the bar to answer charges of infringing its Java copyrights and patents. The appeals c...
Feb. 8, 2012 06:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,150
IBM Buys Worklight
By Maureen O'Gara
IBM is buying a privately held 12-year-old Israeli outfit called Worklight for its write-once-run-anywhere application platform and tools for smartphones and tablets. The price IBM is paying wasn’t disclosed. Worklight’s widgetry, which can be used to create and run HTML5, hybrid an...
Feb. 2, 2012 08:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,317
German Ban on Galaxy Tab Stays in Place
By Maureen O'Gara
The temporary injunction that Apple got forbidding Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 to be sold in Germany survived a Düsseldorf appeals court, which found Tuesday that “Samsung unfairly imitates the iPad with its tablet.” The court said the ban includes the smaller Galaxy Tab 8.9. However, ...
Feb. 1, 2012 06:15 AM EST  Reads: 954
EC To Probe Samsung for FRAND Abuse
By Maureen O'Gara
Samsung’s cavalier assertion of 13 3G standards-essential patents it happens to own in its worldwide patent war with Apple has provoked the European Commission to open and prioritize a formal antitrust investigation of the Korean company for alleged FRAND abuse of ETSI-pledged patents....
Feb. 1, 2012 06:06 AM EST  Reads: 642
HP Commits to webOS Release Schedule
By Maureen O'Gara
Seems just the other day – actually it was two weeks ago – that we divined that HP, imagining blowing Google away, would pull out the stops to get the webOS that it bought, put in a tablet that failed in the market, dropped, then open sourced – life’s funny like that – in shape to publ...
Jan. 30, 2012 06:45 AM EST  Reads: 1,365
Apple Quietly Appeals ITC’s HTC Decision
By Maureen O'Gara
Apple has taken the International Trade Commission’s month-old decision finding HTC’s Android gismos infringe only one of the patents it asserted and letting it ship the products while it fixes the problem to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). The patent-watching Fo...
Jan. 30, 2012 05:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,243
To AppStore, or Not to AppStore, That is the Question!
By David Abramowski
Nearly every web application that interacts with a user is faced with the dilemma of how to best support tablets and mobile devices. As entrepreneurs we can no longer put off supporting these platforms as a nice to have. The demand that is created by iPad users and the influx of Andr...
Jan. 26, 2012 06:00 AM EST  Reads: 956
InterDigital Gives Up Looking for a Buyer
By Maureen O'Gara
Remember InterDigital? That’s the Pennsylvania patent-licensing company that hired Evercore Partners and Barclays Capital last summer to sell its patents, raising punters hopes that Google would buy it to console itself for losing the $4.5 billion Nortel mobile patent auction to Apple,...
Jan. 25, 2012 08:30 AM EST  Reads: 941
Apple Loses Samsung Tablet Appeal
By Maureen O'Gara
A Dutch appeals court Tuesday rejected an injunction-seeking Apple bid to overturn a lower court’s decision last August that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 isn’t a copy of the Apple iPad and doesn’t infringe Apple’s design rights. Apple was also denied a preliminary injunction in the Unit...
Jan. 25, 2012 08:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,026
RIM Replaces CEOs
By Maureen O'Gara
Research In Motion late Sunday named Thorsten Heins, 54, one of its co-COOs, president and chief executive, replacing co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie in the hopes the move reverses the company’s dramatic nosedive and calms irate investors whose stock lost three-quarters of its...
Jan. 23, 2012 10:30 AM EST  Reads: 1,045
Apple Sues Samsung Again
By Maureen O'Gara
Apple has filed two new lawsuits in Germany citing 10 Samsung smartphones and five Samsung tablets with infringing its design IP, the kind of peculiarly European intellectual property it used to get the Galaxy Tab 10.1 outlawed in Germany last year. Apparently the Düsseldorf Regional...
Jan. 18, 2012 09:30 AM EST  Reads: 1,256
Samsung Touted as Possible RIM Buyer
By Maureen O'Gara
An unattributed rumor put in play Tuesday by the Boy Genius blog has RIM interested in selling out and Samsung interested in buying it, or some piece of it, if RIM’s co-CEOs weren’t asking so much. The other possibility is that RIM will license its IP to other companies. Jefferies ...
Jan. 18, 2012 09:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,185
Tablet Computing in Education?
By Ian Thain
I am already an avid believer of Mobility and Tablet computing in the Enterprise, so this week I decided to think about what could be achieved within Education. For the rest of my thoughts I will use my Converged Mobile Device of choice … the iPad. There is already a student web page o...
Jan. 17, 2012 06:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,068
LG Signs Android Patent Deal with Microsoft
By Maureen O'Gara
LG Electronics Thursday became the latest Android and Chrome OS peddler to bow to Microsoft’s patent claims and sign a “patent agreement” that Microsoft said “provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for LG’s tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices running t...
Jan. 13, 2012 06:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,357
Kodak Sues Apple and HTC
By Maureen O'Gara
Eastman Kodak, the erstwhile American icon that’s been threatening to turn into road kill if it can’t sell off a chunk of its patent portfolio, sued Apple and HTC Tuesday in a New York district court for patent infringement. It also complained to the International Trade Commission cl...
Jan. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,194
Genuitec's MobiOne Eases Way for Windows Development of iOS Apps
By Dana Gardner
Genuitec, LLC has revamped its MobiOne development tool to allow Windows operating system users to design and build App Store-ready iOS apps without using a Mac. This means there is no longer an additional expense to buy a Mac machine or learn Objective-C to design apps that operate na...
Jan. 11, 2012 09:56 AM EST  Reads: 705
2012 the Year of the Tablet and Mobile Developer
By Ian Thain
Today I noticed two very separate articles, though to me they are both interrelated and on a subject that I feel very strongly about, Tablet Devices and Mobile App Development. It is no secret that I am a total iOS convert in my personal life, living with my iPhone and iPad, but as a b...
Jan. 9, 2012 07:45 AM EST  Reads: 1,479
Samsung Denied iPhone 4S Ban in Italy
By Maureen O'Gara
Samsung’s bid to get a preliminary injunction outlawing the sale of Apple’s iPhone 4S in Italy has failed, according to ANSA, the Italian wire service. The decision is Samsung’s third failure in Europe. Last month a similar attempt was shot down by a French court and before that Holl...
Jan. 6, 2012 09:15 AM EST  Reads: 1,299
webOS Doomed from Conception: NYT
By Maureen O'Gara
The TouchPad tablet that HP brought to market last year only to kill it a few weeks later for lack of sales was doomed to fail according a story in the New York Times Tuesday. HP subsequently wrote off a nasty $1.6 billion to cover the cost of its folly. It had paid $1.2 billion in m...
Jan. 5, 2012 07:15 AM EST  Reads: 1,518
RIM Has a Bad Case of Yahoo-itis
By Maureen O'Gara
Amazon, which hired an investment bank for the purpose, according to Reuters, and Microsoft together with its buddy Nokia, according to the Wall Street Journal, have kicked the tires at RIM. Reuters says RIM “turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential buye...
Dec. 30, 2011 05:45 AM EST  Reads: 2,013
Schmidt Hints Google’s Own Tablet Coming
By Maureen O'Gara
After lauding Steve Jobs as the “Michelangelo of our time,” combining visionary genius with extraordinary engineering smarts, Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggested in an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera that Google means to bring its own tablet to market in the next six...
Dec. 26, 2011 02:00 PM EST  Reads: 2,065
HTC’s German Resellers Sued for Selling Its Phones
By Maureen O'Gara
Reuters says IP firm IPCom has sued maybe 30 German retailers so far for patent infringement for selling HTC phones. HTC last month dropped an appeal of an injunction IPCom got from a German court in 2009. That made the injunction enforceable. The phones enjoined are any devices usin...
Dec. 26, 2011 01:00 PM EST  Reads: 1,622
Apple’s German Galaxy Tab Ban Looking Doomed
By Maureen O'Gara
The Düsseldorf court that blocked Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Germany in September said Thursday that the changes Samsung has made in the modified Germany-only Galaxy Tab 10.1N are enough to distinguish it from the iPad and that Apple is unlikely to win a ruling ...
Dec. 26, 2011 08:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,852
ITC Says Motorola’s Android Widgets Infringe Microsoft IP
By Maureen O'Gara
Maybe Android won’t be vaporized in the thermonuclear war that Steve Jobs promised to fund before he died; maybe it’s doomed to suffer a thousand cuts. After the International Trade Commission decided Monday that HTC’s Android phones definitely infringe an Apple patent, it said Tuesd...
Dec. 22, 2011 09:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,676
Apple Gets HTC Android Phones Banned in US
By Maureen O'Gara
After a couple of delays, the International Trade Commission finally decided Monday that HTC and its Android phones infringe an Apple patent and will be banned from sale in the United States. But the ruling is so narrow that it may not make much of a difference. In fact, HTC is playi...
Dec. 21, 2011 08:30 AM EST  Reads: 2,206
Intel Reorgs Search for Mobile Holy Grail
By Maureen O'Gara
Caught between the mobile wave that may swamp its boat and the slowing PC market that may leave it marooned, Intel has set up a new Mobile and Communications Group to chase after ARM and its minions and crack the smartphone and tablet markets. The unit combines four existing division...
Dec. 19, 2011 08:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,843
Amazon to Fix Some Kindle Fire Problems
By Maureen O'Gara
In the next two weeks Amazon said Monday that it’s going to update the software in its $199 Kindle Fire over-the-air to address buyer complaints about the performance of the vaunted seven-inch Android tablet. It’s supposed to make the balky touchscreen easier to navigate and let user...
Dec. 19, 2011 06:45 AM EST  Reads: 3,220
The Mobile Business Object... Your Mobile Way Forward
By Ian Thain
As you probably know the Mobile Business Object (MBO) is at the heart of Sybase's UnWired Platform, which is a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform used in turn as part of the SAP Mobility Platform. Once defined the MBO can be used in Native (such as iOS) as well as Hybrid Web Contai...
Dec. 15, 2011 08:15 AM EST  Reads: 1,606
ITC Delays Android Import Ban Decision Again
By Maureen O'Gara
The US International Trade Commission, which was supposed to deliver its final decision on whether or not HTC infringes two Apple patents on Wednesday, has pushed back its commissioners’ verdict until next Monday, December 19. It is the second time that the ITC has delayed its decisi...
Dec. 15, 2011 08:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,649
Web Applications at Cloud Scale
By Liz McMillan
Modern web applications must meet the needs of users connecting anytime, anywhere, and from a variety of new devices, in particular mobile handsets, tablets and non-traditional PCs. Supporting these new, modern web applications and devices requires an application infrastructure that ea...
Dec. 15, 2011 06:45 AM EST  Reads: 1,784
Apple Reportedly Wants to Buy Flash Memory Maker
By Maureen O'Gara
Apple is in talks to buy five-year-old fabless Israeli flash storage maker Anobit Technologies for $400 million-$500 million according to a story in the Hebrew-language financial daily Calcalist repeated by Reuters, Bloomberg, TechCrunch et al. That seems like a lot of money for an A...
Dec. 14, 2011 07:45 AM EST  Reads: 1,474
Court Says Motorola Mobility Can Stop Apple Widgets from Entering Germany
By Maureen O'Gara
Well, if Motorola Mobility antes up a $134 million bond in case it’s ultimately defeated and if Apple can’t get a stay from an appeals court then Motorola will be able to stop Apple’s iPhones and iPads from entering Germany, Europe’s largest market. A regional German court Friday gav...
Dec. 13, 2011 09:00 AM EST  Reads: 2,271

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